Arshad Ali

Arshad Ali is one of the few prodigies to live up to their initial promise. Born in the Kirana gharana, he has been fortunate to receive taleem from his maternal uncles, Ustad Mashkoor Ali Khan and Ustad Mubarak Ali Khan. He is the grandson of the great sarangi maestro late Padmashree Ustad Shakoor Khan Saheb.
When he was four years old, he was heard by the judges of a talent contest organized by ITC Sangeet Research Academy at Delhi. He simply swept them off their feet and got selected. Since then he left his home and came to Kolkata to learn music at the ITC-SRA as its youngest scholar. Since then, he has regularly featured in the ITC Sangeet Sammelans held all over India.
Arshad is a performer par excellence. While still a child, he became one of the most celebrated Little Ustads of our country, with regular programmes on Doordarshan and interviews in most of the major dailies and magazines of this country.